pianotech
Pianotech
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Re: WRONG
said by Steve  :said by AbBaZaBbA : because of the greedy record companies. As opposed to the greedy users, who think nothing of stealing every bit of music they can find? Steve That's debatable, really, and I'm speaking as an artist. Copyright law is far too reaching any more, far more than the "limited time" of protection that the original founding fathers envisioned. The first copyright secured protection for the IP owner for a term of 14 years. Now it's the owner's life + 75 years.
Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, wrote an excellent book called The Free Culture in which me makes some very compelling points. The book is available as a free download at his website: »lessig.org |
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Steve
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| said by pianotech :That's debatable, really, and I'm speaking as an artist. Copyright law is far too reaching any more Oh, this is a perfectly fair postiion. Copyright should draw some sort of balance, and there are principled position on both sides that can aim for moving the "rights" dial one way or the other.
But I don't see any way that the guy who burns through 50G of his cable modem cap ever month (not sending a dime to any artist) can escape being called "greedy", even if he dances around being called "thief".
Steve
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BonezX
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Canada | but remember, after the IP owner dies it gets transfered(or is allready owned) by the record company, so even after the artist is long dead somebody other then the artists family is making money off it. |
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